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Technology

We have let down teens if we ban social media but embrace AI

Governments are looking to ban social media for children but can't get enough of AI – a technology parents are far less equipped to deal with

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Physics

Should it be space-time or spacetime – and why does it matter anyway?

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

Society

We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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Technology

Why are weather forecasting apps so terrible?

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Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) mother and Denisovan (Homo sapiens denisova) father. A bone fragment with this hybrid ancestry was found in the Denisova Cave in Russia. The bone belonged to a female who was at least 13 years old and died around 90,000 years ago. It was known from genetic analysis of other fossils that the two species had interbred, but this is the first first-generation offspring of such a pairing to be found.

Humans

Understanding the Denisovans means understanding ourselves

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Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon?s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program but is not a NASA mission. Credit: Vladimir Vustyansky

Space

Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

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Why do we love fake lips, but hate fake meat?

Mind

Why do we love fake lips, but hate fake meat?

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A new angle on brain health could bring much-needed new treatments

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A new angle on brain health could bring much-needed new treatments

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Cyclists and commuters make their ways home in evening sunshine at the junction of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill in the City of London, aka the Square Mile - the capital's financial district, on 4th April 2023, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

Technology

I'm a cyclist. Will the arrival of robotaxis make my journeys safer?

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We need to establish free internet access as a standalone human right

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We need to establish free internet access as a standalone human right

Free and unimpeded internet access is no longer a convenience or a luxury. It is high time it was made a human right enshrined in law, says philosopher Merten Reglitz

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Physics

Why no one can agree on what quantum physics really means

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Why ageing doesn't have to mean years of poor health

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Humans

Introvert, extravert, otrovert? There's a new personality type in town

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Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound

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